There has yet to be an Indian in the big leagues; baseball as “escape”; enjoy the baseball while they still baseball; the Baltimore Oriole confirmed he was a duck all along; Rob Manfred returns to the Rawlings factory; the five stages of giving up on a season
Watching the postseason with an ailing cat; a guide to the next month from a fan of a consistently losing team; the fine art of focus, perfected by Hank Aaron and Jared Hughes
Remembering a random team’s public failure more than one of your team’s happiest moments is a feature and a bug; will Mr. Walk-off do his surname once more?; Buddy just find your seat already, I’m trying to watch the game
The devil is in the details of striking out; baseball sounds different in each area code; what I was doing the day All-Stars were born
Baseball as an “escape”; home runs as the new personal small ball; we see you, September
Finally, advanced stats for our boring office jobs; if you can only hire people from one fanbase…; the most depressing Mariners related headlines
Evaluator: Matthew Ellis Report Date: 08/21/2019 Dates Seen: 08/20/2019 OFP: 10 MLB ETA: 2024 Video: Senator Bernie Sanders plays baseball at Iowa's "Field of Dreams." pic.twitter.com/566f4lkPK6 — The Hill (@thehill) August 20, 2019 Mechanics: Quite fluid delivery, quick start/stop motion. Sets up strong with right leg, frontloads his upper body weight to increase velocity, could…
A few years ago, I bought a book by Geoff Miller called Intangibles: Big-League Stories and Strategies for Winning the Mental Game—In Baseball and in Life. Miller is a mental skills coach in the MLB, working with such teams as the Braves, Nationals and Phillies, although that is only a small piece of his resume….
Joe Panik was DFAd by the San Francisco Giants yesterday. I can’t say that I really know much about Joe beyond any usual prospect-watch-young-star chronicle thing that could fit any other kid of his age (see: Brad Miller, Carlos Correa, Taijuan Walker, my hopes for a productive career by my early thirties, etc). But what…
With thanks to my husband Steve Stofka for sharing his story. It was 1967, and I was a senior in high school earning extra money by umping 5th-grade little league games. They only paid for one umpire per game at that level, so I covered the entire field from a spot behind the pitcher. There…
There was so much to say. I’d been unfair. We were at a crossroads. The boundaries had to be redrawn for the relationship to continue. I was the one accountable for the dysfunction and I was the one that had to change. I had to make a commitment to change. A lot of them, actually….
A big Happy Birthday to @mwilliamson7! 🎉🎂🥳 pic.twitter.com/qPsrPnpVFQ — Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) July 15, 2019 Mariners Designate Mac Williamson For Assignment https://t.co/MtQnLwnIS5 pic.twitter.com/EksQh9xLUF — MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) July 16, 2019 Marx once said, famously, quoting Hegel, that all historical events and persons appear twice – the first time as tragedy, the second as farce….
It was the top of the second when Chick Hafey blooped a middle-in pitch into shallow center, but it was the AL that actually sent one across the plate a few minutes later. Wally Berger and Dick Bartell rounded out the middle of the lineup but it just wasn’t enough: for despite exciting the thousands…
Venus Williams is the same age as Albert Pujols. Contrary to what you may have heard, he is definitely 39 years old, the same age as the elder Williams sister, who lost to 15-year-old Coco Gauff in the Wimbledon first round. When you’re playing tennis at age 39, there are no expectations, just awe. Williams…
I’m not good enough. I’m incomplete and insufficient. My body isn’t good enough, my voice isn’t good enough, and, even if I could perfect them, my femaleness would still remain my fundamental flaw. Every woman and girl has to live with these messages. All my life I have fought back, all the while resisting this…
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is often credited for developing one of our society’s most important modern philosophical concepts, that of the dialectic. Hegel’s dialectic builds off and extends classical philosophy’s Greek concept of a dialectical exchange, in which two opposing sides of an argument–a thesis and its antithesis–stake out a kind of territory…